It is odd, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial. I burst immediately into indignant speech.
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!
The spoken word and the written—there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the original meaning.
Think! With thought, all problems can be solved.
They say all the world loves a lover – apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.
That’s peace—real peace. To come to the end—not to have to go on…Yes, peace…
Sensationalism dies quickly – fear is long-lived.
One must follow one’s star, wherever it leads.
However deep you bury an unpleasantness a dog will always root it up again.
Even the most sober of us is liable to have his head turned by success.
Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.
You’re apt to be done down, you know, if you don’t speak anything but good American.
